Moira Norrie
Professor
Department Of Computer Science
ETH Zürich - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Moira Norrie has been Associate Professor and since April 1, 2002 full Professor of Computer Science at the Institute of Information Systems at the ETH Zurich. Moira Norrie studied Mathematics and Computer Science in her home country of Scotland. She obtained a B.Sc. from the University of Dundee, an M.Sc. from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and a Ph.D. from the University of Glasgow. Her previous posts include lectureships at the Universities of Edinburgh, Hertfordshire and Abertay and research positions at the Swedish Institute for Systems Development (SISU) in Stockholm and the University of Glasgow.
Research Interest
The main interests of her research group are object-oriented data models and systems, Internet databases and use of these technologies in advanced application systems. Specifically, the group has produced the OMS Database Development Suite supporting the design and development of database application systems. OMS is based on a generic object-oriented data model and includes a rapid prototyping system, a Java-based application development framework, Web interfaces and graphical browsers for data and metadata.
